Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Leonardo and the 'Abbreviators'
1: A Strange Career
2: Looking
3: Body and Machine
4: The Living Earth
5: Telling Tales
6: Lisa's Room. Leonardo's Afterlife
Gallery
Leonardo's Life in Outline
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College. Oxford University. Previously based at the universities of St Andrews and Glasgow, he is a former British Academy Wolfson Research Professor (1993-98) and has held visiting posts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Montreal and Harvard (I Tatti).

He has published extensively on Leonardo da Vinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellous works of nature and man (1989 and 2006). His book on the newly discovered Leonardo portrait, La Bella Principessa, written with Pascal Cotte. His most recent book, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, is being published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Leonardo seen from the inside out'
The New Yorker
`Excellent'
Sunday Telegraph
`orchestrates the available information effortlessly... [a] magisterial text'
Lisa Jardine, Guardian
`Illuminating'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
`A succinct introduction... by one of the world's foremost authorities'
Independent
`filled with fresh thought... Kemp has succeeded at something that is possible only after years of reflection'
Los Angeles Times
`Excites the reader's admiration for the restless vitality of the man and his ideas'
Washington Post Book World